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Yu Ming is Ainm Dom
Tired of his dead-end supermarket job, Yu Ming (Daniel Wu) decides to learn Irish and leave his home country of China for a new life overseas. With a simple spin of a globe he decides that Ireland will be his new home. When he researches Irish culture and learns that Gaelic is the country’s official language, he studies hard to master it before setting off. He lands to discover nobody understand him. Feeling lost and frustrated he walks into a bar and befriends an older Irish-speaking gentleman (Frank Kelly) who directs him down a better path. Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom was shortlisted for an Academy Award and won at least 18 awards at a range of international film festivals . With kind permission of Daniel O’Hara.
Fluent Dysphasia
In this short by Daniel O’Hara, Academy Award-nominee Stephen Rea plays Murph, a father who wakes up after a night on the town to the shocking realisation that he is now fluent in the Irish language but has completely forgotten how to speak English. Confused by this unusual situation he desperately reaches out to his daughter, Jane (Jayne Stynes), who provides a communication lifeline. A clever spin on the difficulties Irish speakers can face in their own country, Fluent Dysphasia is a linguistically-dextrous satire – a fine follow-up to O’Hara’s Yu Ming is Ainm Dom (2003). Fluent Dysphasia was funded through the Oscailt scheme, co-funded by Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hÉireann and TG4 with the aim of encouraging new talent in Irish language drama production. Daniel O’Hara won several prestigious awards for Fluent Dysphasia this film and for his first short film Yu Ming is Ainm Dom. With kind permission of Daniel O’Hara.
